Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir (born 7 May 1987) is an Icelandic basketball

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coach and player and a former member of the Icelandic national basketball team. As a player, she won the

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twice and the Icelandic Cup five times.

Club career

After coming up through the junior programs of Skallagrímur, Guðrún started her senior team career with

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in 2003 and helped the team win two national championships and five Icelandic Cups. She played for KR from 2007 to 2009, winning the Icelandic Cup during her later season with the team. She returned to her hometown team of Skallagrímur in 2015. In her first game, she posted a

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with 10 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists. In 2017 she helped Skallagrímur to the Cup finals where it eventually lost to Valur. She retired from playing after being hired as the head coach of Skallagrímur in September 2019.

Titles

* Icelandic champion (2): 2006, 2007 * Icelandic Cup (5): 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 * Icelandic Company Cup (3): 2005, 2006, 2011 * Icelandic Super Cup: 2006 * 1. deild kvenna (2) : 2004, 2016

National team career

Guðrún played in nine games for the Icelandic national basketball team from 2008 to 2009.

Coaching career

After serving as an assistant coach to Biljana Stanković for the 2018–19 season, she was hired as the head coach of Skallagrímur in September 2019. In February 2020, she guided Skallagrímur to its first major title since

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when the team defeated KR in the Icelandic Cup finals. In the Úrvalsdeild, the team posted á 15–10 record before the rest of the season was canceled due to the

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. In May 2020, she signed a contract extension for the 2020–21 season. On 20 September 2020, she guided Skallagrímur to its first victory in the Icelandic Super Cup by defeating Valur 74–68. She resigned from her post as head coach on 1 July 2021.

Titles

* Icelandic Cup: 2020 * Icelandic Super Cup: 2020

Personal life

Guðrún is the sister of basketball players

Sigrún Sjöfn Ámundadóttir Sigrún Sjöfn Ámundadóttir (born 23 November 1988) is an Icelandic former basketball player. During her career, she has won the Icelandic championship two times, in 2006 and 2007, and the Icelandic Women's Basketball Cup, Icelandic Basketball ...

and Arna Hrönn Ámundadóttir.

References

External links

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